International Researchers Shocked at Cancellation of Basic Income Pilot

International Researchers Shocked at Cancellation of Basic Income Pilot


By Evelyn L Forget

Two weeks ago, I participated in a panel in Finland with representatives of Basic Income Experiments from Finland, the Netherlands, India and Scotland. My report on the cancellation of Ontario’s Basic Income pilot project was received with stunned disbelief: on July 31, three months after enrollment was complete and before the first annual follow-up survey could be conducted, the planned 3-year experiment was cancelled.
Nearly a month after the announcement, participants in the experiment still had not been contacted and informed what would happen to them.Afterwards, panel participants contacted their counterparts involved in experiments in […]

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